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| adoggie Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6532 days ago 160 posts - 159 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese* Studies: German, Russian, French | Message 1 of 8 02 March 2010 at 9:40am | IP Logged | ||
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For the German translation of "several," which is "einiger" in the feminine dative case, what is the ending for the nominative masculine/neutral and accusative neutral? All of the other endings I can pretty much figure out.
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| Cabaire Senior Member Germany Joined 5598 days ago 725 posts - 1352 votes | Message 2 of 8 02 March 2010 at 9:58am | IP Logged | ||
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I think "einiger" is genitive, the dative is "einigen"
Genitiv: Die Arbeit einiger Frauen Dativ: Ich gebe einigen Frauen Geld. Nominativ maskulinum: Einige Männer sind da. You normally use the plural of "einig-". Exception: Ich habe einiges zu tun. (I have much (several) to do) In the singualar it means "united, agreeing" Deutschland, einig Vaterland Wir sind uns einig. Edited by Cabaire on 02 March 2010 at 10:06am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Walshy Triglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6941 days ago 335 posts - 365 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German | Message 3 of 8 02 March 2010 at 10:59am | IP Logged | ||
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I've also heard things like "aus einiger Entfernung", which appear to translate as "from some distance".
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| Pyx Diglot Senior Member China Joined 5734 days ago 670 posts - 892 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Mandarin | Message 4 of 8 02 March 2010 at 11:36am | IP Logged | ||
There's also "mehrere" for "several", JFYI 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| adoggie Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6532 days ago 160 posts - 159 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese* Studies: German, Russian, French | Message 5 of 8 06 March 2010 at 2:25am | IP Logged | ||
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Can somebody provide a table or list with all 16 of the gender/number/case variants?
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| Virginian683 Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6776 days ago 43 posts - 50 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Russian | Message 6 of 8 06 March 2010 at 5:22am | IP Logged | ||
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Pyx is right, "mehrere" is closer to "several." Einige is more like "a few."
You are talking about the so-called "strong" adjective endings (when the adjective is not preceded by an article). Since einige is automatically plural, the gender in this case is irrelevant; they all decline the same. Nominative is "-e", genitive is "-er", dative is "-en" and accusative is "-e". I think it will be helpful to you to think of the plural in German as a 4th gender, because the way articles and adjectives decline in the plural is the same regardless of gender. (With an article, all the adjectives end in -en.) Edited by Virginian683 on 06 March 2010 at 5:24am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6908 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 8 06 March 2010 at 4:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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adoggie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_articles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_adjectives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_pronouns#Pronouns_derive d_from_articles As you can see, there is some overlap. For instance, you will see that the -m shows up in the same places. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| georgees Newbie United States Joined 5374 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes | Message 8 of 8 09 March 2010 at 2:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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